The girls were injured, turned into addicts themselves, and left with psychological trauma that will affect their whole lives.

For many of them, they had already had difficult times, be it shattered homes or family abuse. The state had taken them into its care, but it did not stop their childhoods being stolen.

Spencer’s been jailed for 12 years for her crimes, but no children’s home staff or social worker – some of whom must have ignored, been negligent of, or overlooked their charges’ late nights, addictive behaviour and need for better supervision – have been found culpable.

And it was not the first time this had happened.

Last year nine men were jailed for running a sex ring at children’s homes in Rochdale.

No-one’s raised these cases in PMQs recently. There isn’t a hashtag. David Cameron hasn’t ordered an inquiry into what looks very like a national epidemic of child abuse.

The group of girls in Nigeria need to be rescued, pronto. They were trying to improve their lives and brains, and have been stopped by morons who massacre people whenever they feel like it.

The group of girls in the UK also need to be saved. They need to have better lives, and have been stopped from doing so by morons who rape whenever they feel like it.

There is no difference between those two groups except for this: The schoolgirls were ignored for a while, and are now being noticed. Hopefully their troubles will be over soon.

The children’s home kids are still being ignored, and they’re still being abused.

It’s amazing, and galling, to think that if our most vulnerable children were raped ALL AT ONCE we’d take more notice than if it happened one at a time, every single day, for decades.

Or if they were on a sinking ferry, or a missing plane, or were kidnapped by extremists, it would be easier for us to think about that if they were in our street, in our town, being attacked by the men we walk past or talk to.

Girls go missing all the time. It’s not dramatic. It doesn’t get headlines.

But it exists, it happens right here, and no-one is sending the SAS after those responsible.